A 257 photo stop motion by adamduffers, it took 3 hours to make, half an hour to edit and 55 seconds in to make us smile: The Architect from adamduffers on Vimeo.It does indeed take a long time to become an architect…

Experimental Japan from Dave Lee on Vimeo. Stop motion timelapse can be a very powerful way to communicate a city, director Davie Lee of davidleedop.com has used the technique to capture his return trip to Japan. It is interesting how evocative of place a 41 second clip can be…

Still Moving from mustardcuffins on Vimeo. The movie above by mustardciffins is a mix of stop motion, tilt shift and tracking techniques. Captured with a Canon G9 its a really nice capture of the urban environment, we are struggling to work out how it was done 🙂 Picked up via…

Marcul City from Abram Pineda-Fischer on Vimeo.As with our post last week on the City of Books sometimes its good to be non-digital. The movie above is by Abram Pineda-Fischer and Lucas Scott with music by Matt Nimmo and we really like it…

The film below is simply stunning, it was produced for 4th Estate Publishers’ 25th Anniversary by Apt Studio and Asylum Films. Entitled ‘Welcome to our city – to our world – of books, this is where we live’, the film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008:This…

Nice Clean White from DaBrainkilla on Vimeo. Sometimes its nice to take a break from the 3D renderings that we usually feature here on digital urban. The music video above entitled ‘Nice Clean White’ is an abstract journey in our everyday surroundings, illustrating moments of life in a continuous way….

Jamatkins, an A-Level Student has uploaded video of a city he created as part of an art project. Created out of painted wood, plaster and 10 hours photography the finshed article is embedded below: We think its really rather well done…

Ok so its not urban but it is sort of digital and a fascinating movie displaying the techniques of stop frame animation and blue screen to mask out the background for effective visualisation: The movie was created using a FUJI FinePix S3 PRO camera and AfterEffects 6.5 to extract the…